SUMMER SOUVENIRS
Coots / Newman

as recorded by Artie Shaw & his Orchestra 
(vocal - Helen Forrest)  
December 13th 1938  
The Blue Room  Hotel Lincoln  
New York


Harvest moon above is shining bright,
Memories of you haunt me tonight,
While I'm looking through
My precious Summer souvenirs.

Trinkets that we won in boardwalk games,
Tintypes that were done in painted frames,
They all speak of you,
My precious Summer souvenirs.

I still have banners from the boat we boarded
When we sailed across the bay;
Songs your favourite band recorded
I have hoarded away.

Leaves are on the ground, there'll soon be frost,
Someone else has found the love I lost,
Still I'm clinging to
My precious Summer souvenirs.

Leaves are on the ground, there'll soon be frost,
Someone else has found the love I lost,
Still I'm clinging to
My precious Summer souvenirs.



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - January 2013)